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Adirondack, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Horicon town. It lies in ZIP code area 12808. It stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Schroon Lake quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Adirondack within Warren County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Adirondack, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Adirondack, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Adirondack between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2007Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 August 1997Natural3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Adirondack: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Berebe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrence1925
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrenceMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adirondack in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Thunderstorm WindAdirondack$10,000no account filed
April 2008FloodAdirondack-The melting of a deep snowpack led to moderate or higher river flooding across portions of the upper Hudson River basin, including the Schroon River.||Snow water equivalents of nearly one foot began to melt during a warm period beginning around April 10th, and led to river flooding which persisted through the end of April.||Along the Schroon River, at least one permanent home, along with a few summer camps were flooded. In addition, the New York State Canal Corporation was unable to open the Hudson-Champlain Canal in April due to high water levels.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAdirondack-One tree, and multiple wires were reported down in Adirondack due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Warren County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pottersville3.9 miles26
Brant Lake6.1 miles29
Starbuckville6.3 miles26
South Horicon7.6 miles26
Chestertown8.0 miles26
Igerna9.0 miles26
Riparius10.2 miles26
Graphite10.4 miles28

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AdirondackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740120The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942185. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.